Country | Germany |
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Broadcast area | Germany, Austria, Switzerland |
Headquarters | Munich, Germany |
Programming | |
Language(s) | German/English |
Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Sky Deutschland |
Sister channels | 13th Street Syfy |
History | |
Launched | 5 September 2013 |
Former names | Universal Channel (2013-2018) |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Universal TV is a German pay-tv-channel, operated by Sky Deutschland and headquartered in Munich. The station was announced on 22 May 2013 and launched on 5 September 2013. [1]
In the course of the global renaming of Universal Channel into Universal TV, the channel was renamed in Germany on 2 July 2018. [2]
It was folded into Sky Deutschland operations in December 2023.
The programme consists of a mixture of feature films and series, the latter being the major part of the program. The station's prime time starts at 9 pm and is filled, among other things, by exclusive first broadcastings. The complete program is also available in the original version, in addition to German synchronization. [3] In addition to series already broadcast on other stations, German-language first-time broadcasts are also offered.
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Annual average | |
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2017 [6] | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% ' |
2018 [7] | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
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